The Reed College of Media and College of Creative Arts will merge to form the new WVU College of Creative Arts and Media as of July 1, 2024. Get details.
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West Virginia University Reed College of Media students spent the fall semester taking a deep dive into West Virginia issues with the help of two investigative reporting pros, Derek Willis and Ken Ward.
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100 Days in Appalachia, an independent, nonprofit news outlet and learning
lab for students in the
West Virginia University
Reed College of Media, is among 164 organizations nationally to be named a
2020
Report for America (RFA) newsroom. RFA employs and embeds talented, emerging
journalists to report on under-covered issues and communities.
100 Days was founded in 2016 and has garnered a national reputation as a go-to source for real stories coming out of Appalachia told by the journalists and community members living and working there. It is an ongoing, evolving project that aims to change the national perception of Appalachia, but it’s also an innovative platform that experiments with new digital storytelling and community engagement techniques.
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